This article reviews the national minimum wage legislation that exists in the E U and asks what contribution a Union wide minimum wage policy might make to overcoming the threat of 'social dumping' in the single market. The available empirical evidence suggests that the adoption of such a policy is likely to have only a limited adverse impact upon employ ment, confined principally to the young.
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